Siobhan Fahey Quotes

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Fashion goes round in circles.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Being a woman is really crap.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand Stay with me, stay with me.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.